3rd ERMN-Meeting
On January 31, 2024, the third meeting of the European Rural Mobility Network (ERMN) will take place within the framework of the EU project SMARTA-NET - with the participation of Bente Grimm and Rieka Oldsen. […] Read more
Tag: Sustainability
Urban Mobility Days 2023
Bente Grimm participated in the Urban Mobility Days 2023 in Seville as a speaker for the session: Mobility for Sustainable Tourism.
The session took place on Day 2, Thursday, 5 October. […] Read more
2nd ERMN-Meeting
SMARTA-NET organised its first in-person conference in Bingen am Rhein, Germany (near Frankfurt) hosted by our lighthouse site Kusel District on 11-12th October.. […] Read more
Sustainable Mobility in rural tourist regions
SMARTA-NET is a European initiative of the European Commission that aims to promote sustainable and resilient mobility solutions in rural areas. A consortium of five different countries is working on the project, besides NIT these are MemEx (Italy), E40 (Hungary), TIS (Portugal) and Panteia (Netherlands). […] Read more
GTSC Sevilla 2022
UIf Sonntag was part of the panel on "Climate Change, Heat Waves, and Fires: Influence on the Tourism Industry" and "Sustainable Business Travel" at the GSTC Seville (Global Sustainable Tourism Council) on 13 December 2022. […] Read more
AIR – AI-based recommender for sustainable tourism development
The development of processes based on artificial intelligence is intended to equalize and manage visitor flows in the future. This will provide sustainable tourism with a further opportunity to identify any clusters of visitors that may arise and the resulting congestion of popular travel and excursion destinations at an early stage. Using the information, visitors […] Read more
Sustainability in holiday travel: Awareness and demand trends and their influencing factors
What role does sustainability play in travel planning of Germans, how sustainable is their travel behaviour practice and how do these two aspects develop over time? These questions are the focus of a research project of the Forschungsgemeinschaft Urlaub und Reisen (FUR). NIT is supporting the project with know-how and personal resources. […] Read more
Quality Tourism for Berlin
In cooperation with BTE Tourismus- und Regionalberatung, the NIT has developed a definition for quality tourism on behalf of VisitBerlin and defined goals and indicators that make the implementation of the concept measurable and traceable. […] Read more
AI-based recommender for sustainable tourism
The tourism relaunch after the corona lockdown has revealed that some places are – at least temporarily – overcrowded by tourists. This phenomenon resulted in the idea to provide visitors with an indication if and when the journey to a holiday- or day trip destination is worth it. In the light of the rush of […] Read more
Tourban – EU project with funding opportunities for companies in and around Kiel
Tourban is an EU-funded project that supports urban tourism SMEs in becoming more competitive and more sustainable – not only from an environmental but also from an economic and social point of view. NIT is one of eight partners from seven European cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Kiel, and Tallinn. […] Read more